A long piece in the NYTimes Magazine ponders, “Why are so many people in their 20s taking so long to grow up?” Sigh. Same shit, different decade. Twenty years ago, when I was indeed 20, Time Magazine ran a cover story on “twenty-somethings” — the first I had heard the term used — musing on [...]

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Found via the Comics Curmudgeon who duly mocks it: The only way I read the funny pages these days is through the Comics Curmudgeon, which probably has some influence on my interpretation of this strip. I don’t know the specific story line for this week’s LuAnn, but the strip has been around long enough, that [...]

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Over in the U.K., a small but vocal group of parents are whinging that the sight of kiddy TV host Cerrie Burnell’s disability is freaking out their kids. Burnell came into the world missing the lower half of one arm, and she has grown into a smart, charming and talented host of a widely distributed [...]

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Click the image to read the cartoon at full size. It will make you a better person.

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The panties of various authorities and parental types are all tied up in a knot over the “sexting” – a catch-all phrase for various ways young people have used technology to flirt with each other. Got a cell phone with a camera? Snap a boob pic and send it to your beau. But beware: Greensburg, [...]

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